Question

This composer wrote a ballet about the goddess Diana’s solitude that is mostly performed today as a virtuosic piano concerto, Aubade (“oh-BAHD”). This composer bookended a Larghetto reminiscent of the “Romanze” from Mozart’s 20th piano concerto (-5[1])with percussive D minor outer movements in his Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra. The neo-Baroque (10[1])style of this composer’s concerto for organ, strings and percussion was inspired (10[1])by his midlife embrace of Catholicism, (-5[1])which clashed (10[1])with his open homosexuality. The title characters of an opera by this composer “only sing (10[1])tonal music” in scenes like the Salve regina as they are about to be guillotined. (10[3])For 10 (10[1])points, (10[2])name (-5[1])this French member (-5[1])of Les Six (“lay SEESE”) who wrote an opera (10[1]-5[1])about nuns during the French Revolution, (-5[1])Dialogues (10[1]-5[1])of the Carmelites. (10[2])■END■ (10[5]0[17])

ANSWER: Francis Poulenc (“frawn-SEESE poo-LANK”) [or Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc]
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= Average correct buzz position

Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Kevin ParkClaremont ATexas A&M B34-5
Forrest Weintraub (UG)Columbia AJohn Jay5010
Natan HoltzmanStanford BBerkeley B6210
Nathan Redford (DII)Liberty C (DII)JMU B (UG)68-5
Ethan StrombeckStanford ABerkeley C7010
Raymond WangCornell ARIT A8510
Emily Bussa (UG)Maryland B (UG)William & Mary A (UG)10010
Ivvone Zhou (UG)UNC B (UG)UNC D (DII)10010
David BassJohns HopkinsHaverford10010
Guy IndoranteIowa StateArizona State10210
Benjamin McAvoy-Bickford (DII)UNC A (Grad)Liberty B (DII)10310
Jack LewisMTSUTennessee10310
Alan ZhangUBC ASorbonne104-5
Davin SivertsonAlabamaGeodesic107-5
Joel MilesMinnesota BMinnesota C11410
Halle FriedmanNYU AColumbia B114-5
Tegan KapadiaGeorgia Tech AHarding120-5
Caleb Kendrick (Grad)Maryland A (Grad)GWU A (UG)12110
Jason Qin (DII)Columbia CNYU B121-5
John John Groger (UG)Columbia BNYU A12410
Andrew EllisKentuckyVanderbilt B12410
Swapnil GargBerkeley AStanford C1250
Cade ReinbergerRIT BCornell C1250
Aadarsh BalireddyCornell CRIT B1250
Ian He (UG)UNC C (UG)JMU A (UG)1250
Addie King (UG)JMU A (UG)UNC C (UG)1250
Charlotte Goeb (UG)Virginia B (UG)Liberty A (Grad)1250
Joseph Chambers (DII)Virginia A (UG)Virginia C (UG)12510
Daniel NeylonTexas A&M BClaremont A1250
Roan DowlingIowa AUW A12510
Deepak MuthyalaTexas A&M AMichigan State A1250
Cameron WilliamsAppalachian StateRice A1250
Anton AkroushMichigan State ATexas A&M A1250
Cormac BeirneSorbonneUBC A1250
Joshua Garner (DII)Ohio State BMichigan B1250
Roxanne Tang (UG)Ohio State AMichigan C12510
Dennis Yang (DII)Michigan BOhio State B1250
Andrew HannaPennVassar1250
Jeffrey Guan (UG)NYU BColumbia C1250
Tom Doyle (UG)VassarPenn12510
Amogh KulkarniGeodesicAlabama12510
Jack ObermanSouth CarolinaVanderbilt A1250
Gavin MarkoffVanderbilt ASouth Carolina1250